Re: FLASH: FLASH . . . win 98 problem

[Colin Moock]

flashershocker [dot] com

,Internet writes:

>What is it that is generating

>this old code that is causing the probllem with win98 and what is that

>particular code for?

The reason the old code is a problem is that it's a pain to programmatically

grab the OS from navigator.appVersion, so you have to do it by hand like this:


if the OS is Win95

or if the browser is WinNT

or if the browser is Win98

Then do this...


Unfortunately, you can't know the names of the OSes in advance so if your

detection code relies on determining the OS, the code becomes out of date every

time appVersion reports a new OS (as in the case of Win98).  It's a problem

inherent in all javascripts of this kind.  This and other shortcomings of the

JavaScript detection routines for Flash make a pretty strong case for doing the

alternative kind of detection I posted a day ago which you can take a look at

here:

http://colinmoock.iceinc.com/webdesign/flash/detection/noscriptdetection.html


If you want to learn more about JavaScript browser sniffing, visit the small

section JavaScript section of my site:

http://colinmoock.iceinc.com/webdesign/javascript/index.html


colin


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